On Jul 28, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> - support files are not versioned (e.g., show_help text files)
> - include files are not versioned (e.g., mpi.h)
> - OMPI's DSOs actually are versioned, but more work would be needed
> in this area to make that versioning scheme work in real world
> scenarios
> - ...and probably some other things that I'm not thinking of...
You can probably solve most of these issues by just versioning the
directory names where you put the files; and with some luck, some
downstream distribution can achieve this by merely passing a bunch of
--foodir=... options to configure.
This is probably true -- we do obey all the Autoconf-specified
directories, so overriding --foodir= should work. It may break things
like mpirun --prefix behavior, though. But I think that the
executables would be problematic -- you'd only have 1 mpirun, orted,
etc. OMPI does *not* currently handle the Autoconf --program-*
configure options properly. I confess to not recalling the specific
issues, but I recall we had long discussions about them -- the issues
are quite tangled and complicated. And I remember coming to the
conclusion "not worth supporting those."
FWIW, Chris is probably right that it's far easier to simply install
different OMPI versions into different $prefix trees (IMHO).
--
Jeff Squyres
jsquy...@cisco.com
